MMAJunkie.com<\/a> that Lopes was undeserving of a second crack at UFC gold.<\/p>\n\u201cMurphy won by good performance, then he\u2019s supposed to fight for the title then they gave the title shot to Diego again, and OK, no problem,\u201d Evloev said. \u201cI will wait. Then he showed us nothing changes from the first title fight with Volk. It was no reason to give him that title shot again. But now we know, and everybody knows, also the UFC knows. So now me and Murphy will share the place for No. 1 contender for the title.\u201d<\/p>\n
Evolev is scheduled to fight Lerone Murphy in the main event of a UFC London card on March 21. While some might think it\u2019s a high stakes featherweight bout with title implications, the UFC brass doesn\u2019t solely grant title shots based on rankings or even merit these days. Star power and exciting fighting styles are prioritized in the top MMA promotion.<\/p>\n
If Evloev or Murphy can score a spectacular knockout, then it\u2019ll increase the winner\u2019s chances of challenging Volkanovski this year. If the fight is uneventful, then that likely wouldn\u2019t bode well for whoever emerges victorious inside the O2 Arena. Stick with BJPenn.com for continued coverage of UFC London.<\/p>\n
Do you think Movsar Evloev vs. Lerone Murphy will actually be a No. 1 contender fight? Be sure to drop a comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Movsar Evloev didn\u2019t see much improvement in Diego Lopes\u2019 game in the rematch with Alexander Volkanovski. Lopes was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-473553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}